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Topic: Paradise goes to LONDON! (Read 28011 times)

Hojer: I was in block 535, row 25 I think my seat was in the 270s - kept on seeing niners fans all game and was wondering if it was anyone from the 'Dise!Grid: Yeah we had the same problem with the announcer - sometimes you could hear him, sometimes you couldnt. Our view was much better than I'd expected, but I wish the scoreboards were bigger so you could see down and distance easier from up in the gods! I dont think they were updating them that quickly though, as a few times when I could just about make it out, it seemed a couple of plays behind

Hojer: I was in block 535, row 25 I think my seat was in the 270s - kept on seeing niners fans all game and was wondering if it was anyone from the 'Dise!Grid: Yeah we had the same problem with the announcer - sometimes you could hear him, sometimes you couldnt. Our view was much better than I'd expected, but I wish the scoreboards were bigger so you could see down and distance easier from up in the gods! I dont think they were updating them that quickly though, as a few times when I could just about make it out, it seemed a couple of plays behind

Wasn't you then, do you have a Mini-me or something? We were sitting on the second level (Block 208 in the VIP section of course ), with a fantastic view of one of the end-zones. It was kinda hard to see what went on at the other end though. Luckily it seemed that most of the action was going on at our end. We didn't have issues with the announcer. We we're sitting next to a small crowd of die-hard Charger fans, so it was sometimes hard to hear the Ref's announcements. One guy kept yelling 'Saints wear thongs' whenever the Saints had the ball.

I was really impressed with the service and general organisation of the whole thing at Wembley. Everthing was just perfect. Much better, I hate to admit, than I'm used to in 'Parken' the national stadium in Denmark - where my team FC Copenhagen is playing their home games. I never saw the old Wembley but the new stadium just looks fantastic - what a place.

A frustrating trend this year was the very high number of Cardinals jerseys being seen!

Yeah, I saw quite a few Warner jerseys. I also seemed to see an awful lot of Packers around.

It was fun trying to spot all the different team colours. Only saw one Browns top, and a couple wearing Bengals gear complete with facepaint. To be honest there were only two or three clubs that I didn't see any sign of....

It just seemed to me that with about 9 Jerseys looking to be black in color,there must have been more of them being Raiders gear than just the one Howie Long jersey you can clearly see the number of. Maybe they were N.O. black ? But it seems no matter where you go in the USA,you see Raiders gear everywhere. I just wondered if it was the same in Europe? (because obviously these fans came from all over and did not just buy those jerseys for this one game to root for those two teams,but already had these jerseys before they even knew who the two teams would be). Which teams are the most popular among NFL fans in Europe ?

I don't think you can put a label on Europe as such. I thought there was quite many Patriots and Giants jerseys being seen besides the obvious Saints and Chargers jerseys. In DK I more often see Cowboys gear and hear of cheeseheads who never seem to show their legience

They polled fans over here during the first Wembley game last year, and the #1 team (I think it was just for the UK) were the Pats Obviously because of all the success they have had over the recent years, it coincides with the time that a lot of people got into the game, so I guess it was to be assumed that they would jump on the Belicheat bandwagon! I think we were 3rd or 4th on the list though, alongside the Dolphins and Redskins in the top 5, primarily because of the 80s sides for each respective team, as aside from newer fans, the majority of people over here picked up the game in the 80s, so the successful sides from that era (and especially those that played in the america bowls over here at the time) are well represented......I'll see if I can find the article and post a link to it if I do...